Cold comes in
Swept from who knows where
Touches everything with stillness
Sound pulls back
Sheets of silence fill the empty
Hush hush - the sky's singular blue note
Branches quiver
Folios shiver lapping-up sunshine
Wind wraps around bundled bones clenching
Gut grinds
Heartbeats rapidly - ruminating
Inhaling the taste of season's sudden shift
Shadows deliriously dance through side window
Walls animated with jagged-edged silhouettes
Leafs retracting against chilly sunbeams
Pulsing this way and that way
Tempted to fall
Overlapping shadow upon shadow
Singularly, I lay
Covers pulled high
Wistfully longing
Reunions drift farther and farther apart
Clouds dissolving
Languishing
Teasing out amorphous impulses
I close my eyes
Daydreams turn to Mourning-dreams
Touch memories
Remember the missing
Translucent sleep forgot to wake
Spooning pillows in your place
I glance the sleepless side - hollow
Carved wood
Wet earth
Sleep's sweat-scent of two become one - gone
Nearness nevermore
Empty unknown growing
Ready for take-off
But as usual, underdressed for winter.